Here is an amazing collection of color photos taken by American photographer Andy Blair that shows bygone industrial times of New Jersey in the 1970s.
(Photos by Andy Blair)
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| A fenced off overgrown area that was too toxic to remediate, Jersey City, March 1974 |
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| Abandoned cranes, barge at left, industrial wasteland, and old Jersey Central railroad facility in the distance at left, Jersey City, 1975 |
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| Abandoned pier at Exchange Place in Jersey City with World Trade Center across the Hudson, March 1975 |
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| Battery Park City landfill towards Jersey City from the abandoned West Side Highway in front of the World Trade Center (its shadow on the left), May 1974 |
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| Bicentennial Tall Ships during Opsail from the abandoned Central Railroad of NJ in Jersey City, July 4, 1976 |
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| Exchange Place and the World Trade Center on Bicentennial Day in Jersey City, July 4, 1976 |
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| Greene Street Boat Club in Jersey City with the Lower Manhattan skyline and the World Trade Center in the distance, 1975 |
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| Hoboken Erie Lackawana terminal with people using phone booths in 1975 |
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| Hoboken Erie Lackawanna Railroad Terminal looking from decrepit old Jersey City piers, March 1976 |
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| Hoboken Erie Lackawanna railroad terminal waiting room, March 1975 |
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| Hoboken Erie Lackawanna terminal in 1975 |
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| Hoboken toward Jersey City (desolate industrial area by Erie Railroad tunnel through Bergen Hill), 1975 |
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| Industrial, railroad and rotting pier ruins in Jersey City from the Statue of Liberty, March 1973 |
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| Jersey City industrial ruins at the end of Greene Street, 1975 |
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| Jersey City panoramic view from the 58th floor of the World Trade Center, April 1974 |
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| Jersey City, 1978 |
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| Jersey City, April 1975 |
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| Jersey City, July 4, 1976 |
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| Large pool of gasoline swirls around the Statue of Liberty from a ruptured pipeline at the Exxon facility near Black Tom and Caven Point in Jersey City, June 1972 |
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| Liberty State Park, Jersey City, 1979 |
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| Looking east to Lower Manhattan and the World Trade Center near the New Jersey Turnpike exit 14B from James Hamil Drive, March 1974 |
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| The abandoned Central Railroad of New Jersey Terminal Jersey City, Aug. 1976 |
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| The Erie Lackawanna railroad terminal, 1975 |
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| The Exchange Place PATH station, Jersey City, March 1975 |
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| The view from a PATH train end-window on a trip from Newark to New York, Jersey City, March 1977 |
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| World Trade Center, Lower Manhattan, abandoned Central Railroad of NJ Terminal and railroad land (Liberty State Park is here now), Jersey City, 1975 |
(Photos by Andy Blair)
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